Monday, May 15, 2017

Okay, we are moving into a busy, busy time of the year! We just had Mother's Day and other events are on the way! The end of school year is looming, graduations, proms, parties, family gatherings, reunions. Father's Day, Summer vacations.....so we here at Cards in Envy thought it was a good time for an "Anything Goes" Favorite Color Combo Card Challenge! This means you can create a card for any theme, any design, any size, any shape WITH your favorite colors as long as it is FLAT enough to fit in an envelope for mailing.

Here are the CIE Designers cards to give you ideas and inspiration! Please click on the blog link by their name for more details about their creations and while visiting, leave them some comment love!

We'd love to see your Favorite Color Combo (Anything Goes) cards.Please read over our challenge requirements and then share your card in the linky at the end of this post.

Here are a few reminders about our challenge requirements:

No lumpy, bumpy cards. Elements on your card need to be relatively flat (no thicker than 1/4") so your card would fit in an envy (envelope) for mailing

Limit entries to 3 per challenge.

No Back Linking--cards must be posted to your blog or an online album during the challenge dates. If it was posted online BEFORE the beginning of our challenge, it cannot be linked.

Entry must be for the current theme.

Cards Only--NO TAGS

Additional rules can be found under the Challenge Guidelines tab at the top under our blog header.

Our Designers will be voting on the cards after the challenge ends and the winners will be announced by Wednesday morning following the close of the challenge.. We will have one FIRST CLASS which is the card that receives the most votes from the Designers and considered the best overall card for the theme. The Designers will also pick one card as their personal favorite for an IN THE MAILBOX badge. That means we may have up to 10 In the Mailbox cards for a challenge. We decided to go with this fun method as each Designer has their own unique style and preference. Each chosen may grab one of our fun badges for their blog! The badges for the challenge will be in the winners post following the close of the challenge after all the Designer votes are in. The winners will also be announced on our Facebook Page, so come Like us so you'll know quickly if you are a winner.

THIS IS A CARDS ONLY CHALLENGE--NO TAGS. Entries not following our rules and not for the current challenge theme will be deleted without notice or comment. We accept any size/shape of card BUT all cards must be flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing (no thicker than 1/4") which means no lumpy, bumpy embellishments. Challenge ends Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time.

Leave a comment and link your FAVORITE COLOR COMBO card in the linky below. Thank you for sharing your card that is flat enough to mail in an envelope with us at Cards in Envy!

Please use your FIRST name and LAST INITIAL for your inlinkz entry name.

Thank you so much for your beautiful Mother's Day or Motherly Love cards! The CIE designers voted and picked the following card as our top winner:

Congratulations

#5 Kuni

First Class Badge Winner

We loved Kuni's sweet card with the precious mother bear and her cub that so clearly showed "Motherly Love"! The card design and yellow color is fabulous too!

Kuni, you may grab the First Class Badge below to proudly showcase on your own blog. Again, Congratulations!

The CIE Designers then each picked their one personal favorite from all the entries to be In the Mailbox. Here they are in no particular order:

#21 Allisa, In the Mailbox as Annie, Sherry, Lisa and Kathy's Personal Favorite

#6 Arlene R, In the Mailbox as Donna's Personal Favorite

#19 Shawna, In the Mailbox as Toni's Personal Favorite

#17 Cheryl S, In the Mailbox as Marilyn's Personal Favorite

#20 Darnell In the Mailbox as Wendi & Kristie's Personal Favorite

#8 Michael Trent, In the Mailbox as Sandy's Personal Favorite

Congratulations to all of our In the Mailbox Badge Winners!

You may grab the badge below to proudly showcase on your own blog!

Again, thank you to each of you for playing along with our Motherly Love challenge. We hope you'll join us again for another card challenge. We have a new one on the blog now with an "Anything Goes" theme with your favorite color combo!

Monday, May 1, 2017

Click >HERE< for the badge winners of the Pretty Pastels Card Challenge!

It's time for a new card challenge! And since Mother's Day will soon be here, we thought we'd give those of you who do create Mother's Day cards a chance to share them. BUT even if you don't create a card for Mother's Day we want to see what you create that represents "Motherly Love." So...for this challenge, share your Mother's Day cards and/or share your card that depicts Motherly Love--a mom with a baby or children, animal moms with their little ones or maybe a character with other small creatures or pets they care for. There are so many wonderful images out there for cardmaking that depict "motherly love." Let's see yours.

Once again, our designers have created a wonderful variety of style and interpretation of the challenge to give you some great ideas and inspiration. Please visit their blog links (by their name) for more details about their card creation and leave some comment love while there. We'd really appreciate it and would love to know you stopped by.

We'd love to see your MOTHERLY LOVE cards.Please read over our challenge requirements and then share your card in the linky at the end of this post.

Here are a few reminders about our challenge requirements:

No lumpy, bumpy cards. Elements on your card need to be relatively flat (no thicker than 1/4") so your card would fit in an envy (envelope) for mailing

Limit entries to 3 per challenge.

No Back Linking--cards must be posted to your blog or an online album during the challenge dates. If it was posted online BEFORE the beginning of our challenge, it cannot be linked.

Entry must be for the current theme.

Cards Only--NO TAGS

Additional rules can be found under the Challenge Guidelines tab at the top under our blog header.

Our Designers will be voting on the cards after the challenge ends and the winners will be announced by Wednesday morning following the close of the challenge.. We will have one FIRST CLASS which is the card that receives the most votes from the Designers and considered the best overall card for the theme. The Designers will also pick one card as their personal favorite for an IN THE MAILBOX badge. That means we may have up to 10 In the Mailbox cards for a challenge. We decided to go with this fun method as each Designer has their own unique style and preference. Each chosen may grab one of our fun badges for their blog! The badges for the challenge will be in the winners post following the close of the challenge after all the Designer votes are in. The winners will also be announced on our Facebook Page, so come Like us so you'll know quickly if you are a winner.

THIS IS A CARDS ONLY CHALLENGE--NO TAGS. Entries not following our rules and not for the current challenge theme will be deleted without notice or comment. We accept any size/shape of card BUT all cards must be flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing (no thicker than 1/4") which means no lumpy, bumpy embellishments. Challenge ends Sunday, May 14th, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. Central Daylight Savings Time.

Leave a comment and link your MOTHERLY LOVE card in the linky below. Thank you for sharing your card that is flat enough to mail in an envelope with us at Cards in Envy!

Please use your FIRST name and LAST INITIAL for your inlinkz entry name.

NOTE: Your card for this challenge must clearly have the words Mom, Mother, Happy Mother's Day or a derivative of the greeting OR have an image of a "mom" on the card. For example: If your card has flowers only and does not have the word "Mom" or "Mother" etc on the front of the card, it cannot be entered for this challenge. Please look at the CIE designers cards or contact me for more clarification if needed. Cards linked that do not meet our challenge theme will be deleted. Thank you.

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Winner Badges

Winner Badges for the FIRST CLASS card and the IN THE MAILBOX cards are now available for you to grab in the Winners post where the winners are listed. This list is available by Wednesday morning after the close of each challenge and will be posted between the last challenge and the current challenge. A link to the winners list will be at the top of the current challenge when the list is available. Thanks! ~Sandy, CIE Host